Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?

I could not clearly distinguish what was passing in my head; it seemed to me that I was under the influence of a horrible dream and that I had but to awake to find myself cured; at times it seemed that my entire life had been a dream, ridiculous and childish, the falseness of which had just been disclosed.

Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?

Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.

Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man.

I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors design beauty, as the musicians create melody; that is to say, endowed with an exquisite nervous organization, they gather up with discerning ardor the purest elements of life, the most beautiful lines of matter, and the most harmonious voices of nature.... To try to find in real life such love as this, eternal and absolute, is the same thing as to seek on the public squares such a woman as Venus or to expect nightingales to sing the symphonies of Beethoven.

I have come too late into a world too old.